You could not find a more beautiful location for Gwyl Lenyddiaeth than Dinefwr near Llandeilo. Set in the heartland of myths and legends with white cattle and a very special castle It was a  perfect Midsummer night’s dream weekend.

            Dinefwr’s second literature festival was a feast of all the arts and not at all high brow as some might have construed from the…

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A Review.  Chapter Arts   Nov 21st 2013 . Third age critic

                                                                  Patricia Roper

“Who dun what to whom and why?”  seems to be the crux of this powerful play by the award winning writer Katherine…

                                                     SAY IT WITH FLOWERS      A REVIEW

                                                  SHERMAN THEATRE PREVIEW   MAY 16TH.

                                                        Third age critic  P Roper

The welsh singer Dorothy Squires was one of the most popular artistes of the 1940’s. Dynamic and charismatic on stage she topped theatre bills…

ROMEO AND JULIET       A REVIEW    MAY 3RD 2013    RIVERFRONT THEATRE  NEWPORT

Ballet Cymru, Coreo Cymru and Sinfonia Cymru came together last week for the opening night of Romeo and Juliet choreographed by the talented awards winner Darius James.

The story of Romeo And Juliet is a classic tale of love thwarted and tragically lost. It is a play which unleashes uncontrolled…

          CALIGULA . A REVIEW.   CHAPTER ARTS APRIL 12TH                              

In the 1st century AD Emperor Gaius Caligula struck fear into the hearts of his Roman subjects. His cruelty, extravagances and sexual perversity were legend as he descended into insanity and he was eventually assassinated:

 Fast forward 2000 years and there have been…

HIGH SOCIETY

Is the chorus right?  Has this musical ‘Got that thing’?  High Society, which is running all week at the WMC, is a saunter back in history to a pre-war period when the idle rich could squander their time on the vagaries of love and marriage.  Such an outdated plot needs something special to lift the interest level and this version of the musical has found ‘that charm’ to do just this.  The difficult to please…